2014-01-18

This is the
last post about Hamburg. Two previous ones can be found here and here.

This time
we left the city centre and headed for the western outskirts to see picturesque
Blankenese. Formerly a fishing village, since late '30s part of the city. It is
located at the northern bank of the Elbe and is a truly peaceful and charming
place.

2014-01-04

The first part can be found here.The
second part of the report on Hamburg I want to start with the very famous
museum located in Speicherstadt's old warehouses. It is not a museum as such,
rather a form of exhibition - Miniatur Wunderland. The place is absolutely
stunning and I could spend all day there if not for the impossibly horrendous
amount of people gathering by each model. In Miniatur Wunderland you can find
everything. From a model of HSV stadium, little planes taking off and landing
on the model runway, ferries near the fiords of Scandinavia to space rocket
launched from the Cape Cannaveral. Night falls over the little world every
fifteen minutes. One can find pretty much everything there: moving vehicles and
mini figures of people presented in any sort of unusual situations (like
Superman in Switzerland). The building on fire with fire brigade hurrying to
extinguish the flames or spaceshuttle landing on the airport or kilometers of
railways. It all awoke a child in me. I have absolutely fell in love with the
place and felt like little girl just standing there for hours and making tens
of videos of landing planes in the row.